ERP - Dynamics Business Central

Optimize your business operations with our ERP (Dynamics Business Central) solution. Get real-time insights, improve financial management, and streamline processes.

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Overview

Streamline and optimize your business operations with our ERP - Business Central solution. This platform offers integrated tools for finance, sales, supply chain, and more, providing an approach to managing your business.

Gain real-time insights into your business performance with ERP - Business Central. Automate processes and improve decision-making with a solution designed to drive growth and enhance operational efficiency.

Experience the benefits of a tailored ERP solution that addresses your specific business needs. With Business Central, integrate core functions like finance, sales, and supply chain for a unified management experience.

Business Central provides a complete ERP solution that manages core business processes. Enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs by integrating finance, sales, operations, and customer service.

Optimize inventory management and streamline operations with Business Central. Improve efficiency and control while adapting to changing business needs with our flexible ERP solution.

Gain real-time visibility into your business performance and make informed decisions with advanced analytics. Business Central offers the tools to enhance decision-making and drive success.

Transform your business operations with Business Central. Integrate key functions for greater efficiency and control, and scale your operations effectively to meet evolving demands.

Choose Business Central for a unified approach to managing finance, supply chain, and operations. Improve your business processes and reduce operational costs with our ERP solution.

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What a Business Central project costs

Clear ranges so you can plan a budget before the first call. Pick the tier closest to your situation.

Essential

Finance and core processes for a small team.

$6,500 to $15,000

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Best fit for most organizations

Standard

Finance, sales, purchasing and stock with data migration.

$12,500 to $30,000

one-time project

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Enterprise

Manufacturing, warehousing, multi-entity and integrations.

From $80,000

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  • A range becomes a fixed price after a short scoping call. What moves a price: users and departments, data to migrate, integrations, and how much is configured versus built.
  • Optional annual support and managed governance starts at 18% of the project value per year (minimum $1,800). Changes after go-live are $85 per hour, or a prepaid 20-hour block for $1,600.
  • Prices exclude VAT (16% in Kenya) and withholding tax.

Not sure which fits? Tell us your team size and what you use today and we will point you to the right option.

What is an ERP system?

An ERP, enterprise resource planning, system runs the transactional core of an organization on one database: general ledger, receivables and payables, purchasing, inventory, fixed assets, and depending on the business, manufacturing, projects or service. The defining characteristic is that a transaction is entered once and every downstream consequence follows from it automatically.

That single entry point is what separates an ERP from a set of good departmental systems. When goods are received, the stock position, the payables balance and the general ledger all move from the same event. When those functions run in separate systems, somebody reconciles them at month end, and the closing period stretches from days into weeks because the reconciliation is where all the errors surface.

The signal that an organization has outgrown its accounting package is usually one of three things: month-end close taking longer than the following month allows, stock or project figures that finance and operations disagree about, or an auditor asking for a transaction trail that has to be assembled by hand from spreadsheets.

Key features to look for in an ERP system

An ERP is the hardest system on this list to replace once installed, so the evaluation deserves more scrutiny than most. These are the areas where the cost of getting it wrong is highest.

1

A chart of accounts and dimensions that fit your reporting

Before anything else, check the system can report by the dimensions you are actually accountable for, branch, project, donor, fund, cost center, without creating a separate account code for every combination. Getting this wrong is expensive to unwind later.

2

Genuine multi-currency handling

Essential across most of Africa and routinely underestimated. Look at how revaluation, realized and unrealized gains, and reporting currency are handled, not merely whether foreign currency transactions can be entered.

3

Purchase-to-pay with approval controls

Requisition, approval against delegated authority, purchase order, goods receipt, three-way match and payment. This is where most financial control actually lives, and where an ERP earns its keep against a bookkeeping package.

4

Inventory and costing that match your operation

Costing method, multi-location stock, and how the system treats goods in transit. Distribution and manufacturing businesses should test this against real scenarios rather than accept a demonstration.

5

Fixed assets and depreciation

A full register with acquisition, transfer, revaluation and disposal, and depreciation that runs without a spreadsheet alongside it. Frequently deferred at implementation and painful to retrofit.

6

Audit trail and period control

Every posting attributable to a user with a timestamp, no back-dating into closed periods without authorization, and no deletion of posted transactions. Your external auditor will test exactly this.

7

Statutory and tax compliance for your jurisdiction

VAT treatment, withholding tax and the filings your revenue authority requires. Confirm this is configured for where you operate rather than adapted from another market.

8

A reporting layer finance can drive

Account schedules and analysis that a finance team can build without a developer. If management reporting still leaves the ERP for a spreadsheet every month, the deployment has not finished.

Frequently asked questions about ERP systems

How much does an ERP system cost?

Sibasi implements Dynamics 365 Business Central from USD 6,500 to 15,000 for a basic deployment covering core finance. A standard deployment is USD 12,500 to 30,000 and typically adds purchasing, inventory and approval workflow; a premium deployment starts from USD 80,000 and covers multi-entity or multi-location rollout with integration and data migration. Microsoft licenses are purchased separately in your own name. The largest variable is not the software, it is data migration and the number of business processes being redesigned rather than replicated.

What is the difference between an ERP and an accounting package?

An accounting package records what happened financially. An ERP runs the operation that generates the financial events, so the accounting is a consequence rather than a separate exercise. Practically: in an accounting package somebody keys a journal after the stock movement; in an ERP the stock movement posts the journal. Organizations usually feel the difference at month end, in stock accuracy, and in whether operational and financial reports agree with each other.

How long does an ERP implementation take?

A single-entity finance deployment with clean opening balances can go live in a few months. Multi-entity, multi-currency or multi-location deployments with inventory take longer, and the pacing item is almost always data: opening balances, the customer and supplier masters, the item master, and open transactions. Organizations that start data cleansing early go live on schedule, and organizations that leave it to the implementer do not.

Can Business Central handle multiple companies and currencies?

Yes. Multi-company with consolidation and multi-currency with revaluation are core capability rather than add-ons, which is a large part of why it suits groups operating across several African markets. What needs deliberate design is the consolidation structure and the reporting dimensions, because those decisions are made once and lived with for years.

What happens to our existing financial data?

Opening balances and master data are migrated; full transactional history usually is not, and attempting it is a common way to delay a go-live. The normal approach is to migrate balances and open items, keep the legacy system available read-only for historical enquiry, and retain it for the statutory retention period. We agree that boundary explicitly during design rather than leaving it to be discovered.

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